TV guns again

[night]

is anyone else having to recalibrate the damn thing everytime u boot the comp?
its really pissing me off  

[Spaced Invader]

I never turn mine off.

[Howard_Casto]

is anyone else having to recalibrate the damn thing everytime u boot the comp?
its really pissing me off  

Even if you do the pc gun people have to recalibrate every time they play a game, so quite complaining and be grateful.  

[night]

<censored by saint>

anyway, i wouldnt be b|tch at all except for this -->

o Calibration required only once, unless light gun is re-connected

which is here --> http://www.act-labs.com/scripts/proddetails.asp?pid=132

that is very misleading. i would leave it on, but that more electric bill, more heat, and more noise from the fans. not to mention i just dont like leaving it on for the sake of leaving it on.

[u_rebelscum]

Not me.  If I calibrate for game X, reboot, and then play game X again, no need to reboot.

However, if I then play a different game Y, I often need to recalibrate reboot or no.

I'm talking both the PC gun and the TV gun.


A question I have no idea if it matters or not:

Is power still going to your motherboard?  ATX motherboards always have power, even when turned off, and maybe the gun box needs a trickle through the USB port to save the savings?

[night]

oh common saint, howard has a slight reputation around here, i was just having fun  


i did think of that, but i dont know what i could do about it. although im sure it does have power. both of my comps have that motherboard, and when i turn the them off the lan led's and the keyboard power lights stay on.

guess i should mail act labs on this one....

[Lilwolf]

For the VGA version.  it seems to keep calibrated when I force the resolution (my monitor only handles 640x480) and then I use hwstretching.  This might help you out some.

But I really don't play with it all that much since I got my dreamcast with hotd2 on it...